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[Marina]

Thanks, Heather. I'm glad she's okay and, as Chrissie said, I hope her family is, too. Obviously she doesn't have to stress or worry about Goodreads, there's a time for everything and I think we all understand that this isn't the time for her to write in here. I'm sure she knows she's in our thoughts and that we will be ready to welcome her back as soon as she feels like writing again.

[Esther]

Rebecca wrote: "Hi everyone, it feels like ages since I've been on goodreads let alone on the computer. I was helping to take care of my mother until I got an awful cold and then when I was getting better from tha..."

Good to see you back here, Rebecca.

[Esther]

Heather wrote: "I don't have much information and we both obviously want to respect her privacy but I have heard briefly of Terri from Jean who had read our earlier posts.

Terri is OK in herself but quite stress..."

Thanks for keeping us updated. Please send Terri my best wishes if you talk to her.

[Leslie]

A brief update - my mother was discharged from the hospital yesterday and is now in the rehab center of her retirement center. Hopefully she will be able to go back to her apartment in a week or so. At least now her friends can easily visit her!

[Leslie]

Thanks Heather (and Jean) for the update on Terri.

[Angela M]

Leslie, great news about your mom !

[Chrissie]

Leslie wrote: "A brief update - my mother was discharged from the hospital yesterday and is now in the rehab center of her retirement center. Hopefully she will be able to go back to her apartment in a week or so..."

Leslie, I am happy to hear that. I hope she gets home to her apartment soon. I will keep both of you in my thoughts.

[Ruth]

I am glad that your mother is doing better Leslie, hopefully she will be in her own place soon.

[dely]

So glad to hear this good news, Leslie!

[Esther]

Leslie wrote: "A brief update - my mother was discharged from the hospital yesterday and is now in the rehab center of her retirement center. Hopefully she will be able to go back to her apartment in a week or so..."
Good to hear your mum is out of hospital and able to have more contact with her friends.

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Leslie wrote: "A brief update - my mother was discharged from the hospital yesterday and is now in the rehab center of her retirement center. Hopefully she will be able to go back to her apartment in a week or so..."

Happy to hear that Leslie, hopefully she will be well. It's so lovely her retirement centre has a rehab unit, we definitely need more things like that in the UK

[B the BookAddict]

It was a relief to hear at least something of Terri. Thanks, ladies.

Good news about your mum, Leslie.

Heather, in AU, we have retirement villages where you first move into a normal unit. As your needs progress, you move into the part-time care units then full-time nursing. (I think Leslie's mum is in a similar USA village.) It's a brilliant idea. It means to older person has really only one major move, and remaining within the same village is definitely a plus.

[Marina]

Good news, Leslie, I'm glad both for your mom and for you.

[Leslie]

B the BookAddict wrote: "It was a relief to hear at least something of Terri. Thanks, ladies.

Good news about your mum, Leslie.

Heather, in AU, we have retirement villages where you first move into a normal unit. As your..."

Yes that is exactly it. Here it has a fancy name I can never remember correctly -- "continuing care retirement community" or some such. There is even a section for people with dementia such as Alzeimer's (but only open to those who develop it once they are part of the community due to lack of space & nursing staff).

[Pink]

Leslie, I'm glad to hear your mum is out of hospital. It sounds like she lives in a good place, with lots of support for different stages. Hope she gets back to her apartment soon.

[LauraT]

Good news then Leslie. I still have problems with my aunt: she is rather old - even if not that old, she's 77 - but she is almost blind and can't hear well.
Her daughter has just had her second child - the first is only 3, so plenty of things to do, also considering that this secon one, even if she's fine, has been born without thyroid.
But she flatly refuses to have help in her house. I don't know what to say to convince her that we'd be all be much more relaxed knowing she has someone bumping into her at least once a day!!!

[Joan]

Continuing Care Communities can be a great retirement option. BUT,
You need to carefully check the business plan - in the U.S. although Fed and States oversee the health care side of the business only a few states have regulations for the financial side.

My Dad looked into one in Florida that looked great until you realized that once the majority of residents became elderly or infirm, there would not be enough money coming to cover expensive costs.
Essentially it was a pyramid scheme licensed by the state!

Some are set up to create financial buffer, but you need to check.

[Leslie]

Joan wrote: "Continuing Care Communities can be a great retirement option. BUT,
You need to carefully check the business plan - in the U.S. although Fed and States oversee the health care side of the business o..."

A good warning but not needed in my case. My dad had carefully investigated this before he put his own mother in care at this place and again before they decided to move there themselves 30 years later. But it is very expensive - I was shocked by the monthly fees when I first discovered what they were!

[Joan]

Leslie wrote: "Joan wrote: "Continuing Care Communities can be a great retirement option. BUT,
You need to carefully check the business plan - in the U.S. although Fed and States oversee the health care side of t..."

Yes, my two Aunts in Connecticut were very happy in the two different Continuing Care Communities where they lived.
My family’s experiences made me glad that I live in a state that has specifice requirements for financial plan disclosures. Not all places have that.

[VictorWizard6000]

Hi everyone
I like the SF and adventure books
My favorite book is the sword of summer by Rick Riordan

[Leslie]

Victor444466 wrote: "Hi everyone
I like the SF and adventure books
My favorite book is the sword of summer by Rick Riordan"

I like SF and adventure too! I haven't read Riordan's books (yet) but I can recommend Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan series - plenty of adventure and sci fi :)

[Ruth]

I also like SF and would recommend the Expanse Series starting with Levithan Wakes

[Marina]

Ruth wrote: "I also like SF and would recommend the Expanse Series starting with Levithan Wakes"

My boyfriend loves it and keeps recommending it to me, but I'm not a SF fan at all, so I'm a bit hesitant.

[B the BookAddict]

One of my top five authors, Anita Shreve, has died from cancer. I can't believe that The Stars Are Fire is her final book.

[Leslie]

B the BookAddict wrote: "One of my top five authors, Anita Shreve, has died from cancer. I can't believe that The Stars Are Fire is her final book."

Awful news Bette...

[Esther]

B the BookAddict wrote: "One of my top five authors, Anita Shreve, has died from cancer. I can't believe that The Stars Are Fire is her final book."

I have only read a couple by her but enjoyed them. She was quite young. How sad.

[Alannah]

B the BookAddict wrote: "One of my top five authors, Anita Shreve, has died from cancer. I can't believe that The Stars Are Fire is her final book."

That's awful news, Bette.

[Angela M]

Happy Easter ! Happy Passover !
Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend .

[Alannah]

Hope you have a wonderful weekend as well Angela.

This will be the first family holiday without my sister, not that we celebrate many. Just Christmas and Easter. My sister is a nurse, but I think she gets a good pay tomorrow, so that is why she offered to do it.

[Diane S ☔]

Have a wonderful Easter and a fantastic Passover.

Having a mid morning brunch at my eldest daughters, so no cooking for me either. Plus, will be home in time to take a nap!!

[Ruth]

Hope everyone is enjoying their Easter and Passover. I have to work and have also have a cold and I've lost my voice so I'm croaking at everyone. lol

[Joan]

Yikes, more snow coming to the metro New York area.

[Esther]

Joan wrote: "Yikes, more snow coming to the metro New York area."

That is ridiculous!

[Alannah]

Joan wrote: "Yikes, more snow coming to the metro New York area."

We have snow and flood warnings here as well but my particular area will most likely get the flooding.

[Alannah]

Ruth wrote: "Hope everyone is enjoying their Easter and Passover. I have to work and have also have a cold and I've lost my voice so I'm croaking at everyone. lol"

Oh no! Hope you feel better soon! :(

[Alannah]

Leslie wrote: "It's snowing here!

But I came here to ask whether anyone else has noticed that on the book pages, the text is now shrunk with big ads on either side and top of the page. HORRIBLE!"

I have noticed that now you've brought it up, it is annoying.

[B the BookAddict]

Just ordered The Stars are Fire and Rescue, both by Anita Shreve. Spurred on the by news of her recent death.

[Leslie]

I managed to finish my mom's tax forms today, which have been keeping me busy for the past several days, so that is a relief! Now I have to do my own!

[Ruth]

Thanks Alannah. I do feel better today and have started to get my voice back. I had yesterday off and I just slept most of the day.

[Diane S ☔]

Have to do mine and my sons this weekend, so I understand the relief you feel even getting one done, Leslie.

Glad you are feeling better Ruth, and were able to rest.

I managed to crack one of my bottom teeth on a piece of Carmel corn a few days ago. Infection set in and I have a large painful lump on my jaw line. Dentist took me yesterday, and started me on antibiotics and gaveme some much appreciated pail pills. Saturday I go back so he can dig out the shards below my gum line, which are causing the infection. Not fun, plus I have a dentist phobia.

[Leslie]

Sorry to hear about your tooth Diane! I also have dentist phobia so I can empathize with how much more difficult that makes it.

[Ruth]

Good luck Diane. I also had a Dentist phobia.

[Marina]

Ouch, Diane, I'm so sorry! Hope you feel better soon! I also have a dentist phobia (it seems like it's quite common in this group, lol!), so I know how you must feel. Get well soon ♥

[Esther]

Diane S ☔ wrote: "Have to do mine and my sons this weekend, so I understand the relief you feel even getting one done, Leslie.
Glad you are feeling better Ruth, and were able to rest.
I managed to crack one of my ..."

Another dentist phobic here. You have my sincere sympathy, Diane.

[Esther]

Ruth wrote: "Thanks Alannah. I do feel better today and have started to get my voice back. I had yesterday off and I just slept most of the day."

I lost my voice for a while during my bout of flu and 5 weeks late it is still not back to normal, which is a problem as I do a lot of singing.
It did improve a bit when I took a couple of sick days off work and did little else but rest.

[B the BookAddict]

Diane, sounds horrid.

[Diane S ☔]

The dentist's office called me today and asked if I could come in at 1:30, so though I dreaded it, I also wanted to get it over. The numbing shots are wearing off and now I'm in quite a bit of pain ,he had to do a lot of digging. Drugs will be my friend for the next few days I imagine.

B, it was pretty terrible. Can't believe so many of us have dental phobia. I do like my dentist and once I'm there I'm okay, it the thinking about going that gets to me.

That sounds terrible Joan. I hope your voice returns to normal, quickly.

[LauraT]

Sorry if at the moment I'm a bit absent, but I'm having some family problems: my cousin, the one who had the baby a month ago, who turned out born without thyroid, has had an ischemic stroke, luckily without notable outcomes, being it in the cerebellum. But still, she is now hospitalized to see why she's had it, and tryiong to prevent another ...
We are a bit worried, and spending as much time as we can there with her ...

[Tamara]

LauraT wrote: "Sorry if at the moment I'm a bit absent, but I'm having some family problems: my cousin, the one who had the baby a month ago, who turned out born without thyroid, has had an ischemic stroke, lucki..."

Sorry to hear about your cousin. I hope they figure out why it happened and can fix it so it doesn't happen again. I wish her a full and speedy recovery.

[dely]

Laura, so sorry to hear this! I really hope they will find out why she had it and that it doesn't happen again.